Jun 10, 2004
Books on Design
My copy of Dan Cederholm’s Web Standard Solutions is on its way according to Amazon.com and should (if all goes well) arrive in a couple days. I ordered it yesterday, after convincing the company I work for that it would make a worthwhile addition to my web development & graphic design library.
Currently I’ve thumbed through and broke the spine on the following books in my collection:
- HTML with XHTML and CSS (5th Ed.) by Elizabeth Castro
- XML for the World Wide Web by Elizabeth Castro
- Photoshop 7 Killer Tips by Scott Kelby and Felix Nelson
- Photoshop Down and Dirty Tricks by Scott Kelby
- Eric Meyer on CSS and More Eric Meyer on CSS by Eric Meyer
- Designing CSS Web Pages by Christopher Schmitt
- Cascading Style Sheets by Owen Briggs, Steven Champeon, Eric Costello and Matt Patterson
- Design-it-Yourself: Logos, Letterheads, and Business Cards by Chuck Green
I highly recommend these books as not only wonderful reference guides, but well-written and concise resources that will ultimately spark your creativity.
3 Comments, Comment or Ping
Max
Designing CSS Web Pages is one of my absolute favorites of all time! I don’t think I’ve ever read a tech book that was so enjoyable from start to finish.
Jun 10th, 2004
beto
Here at work there seems to be a program of getting every possible book of the aforementioned web eminences as soon as they come out of press. That way, I’ve already read those of Zeldman, Jeff Veen and 37signals (and IMHO Eric’s CSS books are the only ones that are really essential on that matter).
Not that I’m complaining - specially when I can read them for free :D
Jun 10th, 2004
kartooner
No doubt, Meyer is wonderful on the technical end of things. His designs, however, and he admits to it, aren’t graphically intensive.
I read the sample chapter on Dan Cederholm’s site and it looks to be a well-written and excellent addition to my library. Now, if only I could read them for free. :)
Actually I like shelling out the greenback for these great materials considering my CSS and XHTML skills have increased — for the better - - due to the advice in these books and lots of hours applying these methods.
Jun 10th, 2004
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